Wii eShop will be closing down on January 31st 2019, with the ability to add new points to an account going away on March 27th 2018.

Between the last update and now, it is possible to fully emulate the Wii Shop channel including purchasing and downloading games legally to a virtual NAND within Dolphin. And I presume homebrew has progressed to a point where dumping/ripping from Wii NANDs is fairly simple for these downloading titles? Hopefully we can update the list here for any remaining undumped or bad-dumped Wii DLC titles. I haven't scraped the dat for any changed compared to the list in this thread yet.

I'm pretty sure the Nintendo Points cards have been discontinued for years now, leaving using an internationally-supported credit card the only way (such as a Visa. You could buy a gift card if you are worried about giving away a personal number, though you'd have to pay a service fee as well.)

If it hasn't done been done already, someone (with the necessary skills) should backup all the titles on the server (they'd be encrypted, obviously). Then if keys are dumped after the titles go offline, all versions of a title with a dumped key can be decrypted, not just the version that was on the Wii the key was recovered from.

And of it allows for potential key bruteforcing in the future, if such technology will ever become cheap enough.

Hiccup wrote:If it hasn't done been done already, someone (with the necessary skills) should backup all the titles on the server (they'd be encrypted, obviously). Then if keys are dumped after the titles go offline, all versions of a title with a dumped key can be decrypted, not just the version that was on the Wii the key was recovered from.

And of it allows for potential key bruteforcing in the future, if such technology will ever become cheap enough.

Backing up as many titles as we can from as many regions as we can is probably the best idea, for the exact reasons that you've said. May not ever make it PERFECT for use... But No-Intro is all about preservation for a reason!

There are titles that have one version dumped, but not their other versions. How can I use a wad + wii and/or nus-downloader to make proper dumps of other versions? I.e. how can I use the ticket from a wad to create another proper wad of the same title, but different title version?

Can we save the last of the undumped titles from extinction? The shop will close January 30, 2019; Wii Points can no longer be added after March 29, 2018. So, how about we divide and conquer and each choose a portion of the undumped (or badly dumped) games to purchase and dump? From what I understand, it's possible to mod the console to download games in other regions too, but I don't know how to do that.